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Welcome to the second edition of the Cumbria Sport Partnership e-zine! 

To celebrate the launch of Beijing 2008 on 08/08/08, this edition features news on what Cumbria is doing to prepare for London 2012!  With Beijing 2008 rapidly approaching, Cumbria Sport Partnership is working hard to encourage clubs, coaches, volunteers and participants to get behind the Games and get more people, more active, more often! During the school holidays, and Active Cumbria Week during 11th-17th August, many Leisure Centres, NGB’s and Sport Development Officers have organised taster sport sessions and holiday sports clubs to encourage participants to try something different and hopefully inspire some future Cumbrian Olympians like those featured in this e-zine.

If you have a story that you would like to see in the newsletter, on our website or in Active Cumbria (monthly sport and physical activity newspaper supplements published throughout Cumbria), please email amy.clement@cumbriacc.gov.uk.  

If you would like to know more about the work of Cumbria Sport Partnership, or get involved, please search the 'About Us' pages of the Cumbria Sport Partnership website, or contact the office on 01228 226885. 

Meet Cumbrian Young Olympic Hopefuls

CARLISLE’S Sheepmount sports facilities have been awarded Centre of Excellence status and are listed in the LOCOG Training Camps Guide along with Hoops Basketball Centre in Barrow and Kendal Judo Club. Each of these facilities hopes to host teams in training for the 2012 London Olympics. To celebrate this, and the impending launch of the Beijing Olympics, ‘Active Cumbria’ caught up with a number of local young medal hopefuls who hope to be competing in the historic games. Our hopefuls include runner Laura Park, who won the 2007 Young Sports Personality of the Year at the Cumbria Sports Awards, squash player Victoria Bell, badminton player Lauren Smith and judo champion Michael Horley. More>>

The London 2012 Legacy

To maximise the opportunities from the staging of the Olympic and Paralympic games, and to leave a lasting legacy beyond, Cumbrian agencies have organised themselves into a proactive ‘Cumbria 2012’ action group.

Local Government, Higher Education, Learning and Skills, The University of Cumbria, Cumbria Tourism, Culture, Economy, The Lake District National Park Authority, and SPORT through the Cumbria Sport Partnership, are represented on the group. An action plan is being developed for each theme that the group members represent.

Eddie Edge, Director of Cumbria Sport Partnership explains: ‘‘Cumbria Sport Partnership will lead on ensuring that a lasting legacy of high quality sports clubs, coaches and volunteers are in place to offer more opportunities, particularly for young people, to take up sport after watching the games. More>>

Olympic Flag Handovers in Cumbria

24th August 2008 is the day the Beijing Olympic Games draws to a close and the moment when the Olympic flag will be passed from the Mayor of Beijing to the Mayor of London meaning the world’s focus will move to London as host city. The ceremonies officially mark the start of London 2012 Olympiad. The BBC will cover the event live and there will be official events around the UK. More>>

Cumbria Major Sports Events Strategy Workshops

Three workshops are being held to guide formulation of a Major Sports Events Strategy for Cumbria. These workshops give the opportunity for stakeholders with an interest in sports events in Cumbria to influence the strategy. The workshops will appeal to private, public and voluntary sector sports event organisers, local authority sports officers, events and tourism officers, major land owners, NGBs and others involved in sports development in the county.

Objectives:

• Discuss and comment on the consultants’ research findings
• Define a major sports event
• Draw up a list of ideas for major sporting events in Cumbria (existing events that can be grown, events that can be attracted from elsewhere and ideas for new events) and prioritise them
• Discuss and prioritise possible strategies
• Identify the barriers and constraints, and how these could be tackled

Venues:

19th August, 15.00 – 17.00, The Board Room, West Lakes College, Lillyhall, Workington
20th August, 09.30 – 11.30, The Board Room, Cumbria Rural Enterprise Centre, Redhills, Penrith
20th August, 18.00 – 20.00, The Rusland Pool Hotel, Haverthwaite (sandwiches provided)

Bookings:

To book your place contact Judith or Steve at Bowles Green Ltd. Email: info@bowlesgreen.co.uk or telephone 01439 78980.

Carlisle Win Cumberland Building Society Youth Games 2008!

Carlisle scooped the winning trophy at this years annual Cumbria Youth Games, which was held on Saturday 5th July in Carlisle. Despite the rain, over 600 children attended and took part in the event, cheered on by family and friends. Teams from all 6 local authority areas competed in sports ranging from Rugby Union and Tennis to Orienteering and Football.

Click here for more information and pictures.

Commonwealth Fell Running Event Gathers Pace

Cumbria County Council has thrown its backing behind a major sporting event planned for Keswick next year.
The first ever Commonwealth ultra distance and mountain running championship is planned for September 2009 and could see fell running return to its natural home (the world's first ever organised fell race took place in Grasmere in 1850).

The Commonwealth ultra distance and mountain running championship already has the backing of all 15 Commonwealth countries. Ultra distance running has seen a surge in popularity in recent years and involves running distances longer than a marathon, commonly 100km or 24-hour races. More>>

Grants on Offer to Sports Coaches

The University of Cumbria is offering support for sports coaches to Get Qualified.  The Sport England-funded Get Qualified scheme will pay up to £250 towards course fees for over-16s working or volunteering at sports clubs or organisations within Cumbria or Lancashire. In return, the successful applicants will do 15 hours of volunteering in sport.

Get Qualified was established in collaboration with the County Sport Partnerships of Cumbria and Lancashire and with continuing support from SkillsActive, the sector skills council for sport.
The university was awarded £250,000 for the two-year scheme by Sport England to support the growth of training and skills in the sports sector, including outdoor sports.
For details visit www.cumbria.ac.uk/getqualified.

Bingo Lotto Buddy launches!

Do you want to raise significant funds for your club? Become a BingoLotto Buddy! In Sweden, BingoLotto has raised more than £900 million that went directly to individual sports clubs to fund uniforms, swimming pools, hockey arenas, buses for transporting teams and much more. Now, it wants to do the same for sports clubs in the UK!

BingoLotto is a live one-hour TV Game, hosted by Joe Pasquale and Suzanne Shaw. Its unique format allows people who have purchased a BingoLotto Gamecard to watch and play a mix of bingo and lottery games live from their living rooms. There are up to 100,000 prizes up for grabs every week, including cars, holidays, wide-screen TVs, cash jackpots and much, much more.

BingoLotto will be returning to our screens early next year with a large, national grocery chain on board to ensure buying BingoLotto Gamecards will be much easier for the public for Series 2. Sports clubs that are BingoLotto Beneficiaries benefit not just from the proceeds of all ticket sales across the nation, but they can also generate additional money, as much as 40 pence per ticket, by joining the BingoLotto Buddy Programme and selling tickets. Find out more by clicking here, or call Fiona from BingoLotto on 07747 835 030 or email fiona.hortopp@bingolotto.tv.

Cumbria Sport Clubs Database

Cumbria Sport Partnership have been developing a clubs and activity database to help you find opportunities to play sport and get involved in physical activity in your area.  If your clubs details aren't currently in the database, please submit your club details.

If you want to try a new sport, you can also contact your local Leisure Centre or sports club to see what activities they have on offer.

Cumbria Sport Partnership Gain Clubmark Licence

Cumbria Sport Partnership are delighted to announce that we have gained a licence to award local sports clubs the national kite mark accreditation, ‘Clubmark’.

Clubmark is a cross-sport quality accreditation for clubs with junior sections. Cumbria Sport Partnership can award clubs that are affiliated to a National Governing Body of Sport (NGB) that does not have a license themselves. It is the only nationally recognised 'kite-mark' for sports clubs to show children, parents, schools and local facilities that a sports club offers a safe, and quality assured environment for juniors. More>>

Sport England Update

As many of you know, Sport England has published a new strategy. The strategy aims to get more people playing and enjoying sport and to help those with talent get to the very top. The new approach is designed to capitalise on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and to use its power to inspire more people to take part in and succeed in sport. The strategy commits Sport England to deliver on a series of demanding targets by 2012/13.

Sport England will work closely with the National Governing Bodies of sport (NGBs) to deliver the new strategy, and will also create strong partnerships with local authorities.

Download the new Sport England Strategy 2008-2012 here.

PE Courses

New PE Courses for teachers for the academic year 2008/09 are now available to book. Visit www.cumbriasport.com/pe-school-sport/courses for more information and to download a booking form.

CP Sport Boccia Community Leaders Course (Level 1)

Date: Wednesday 8th October
Time: 10.00am to 3.00pm.
Venue: Whitehaven Sports Centre
Cost: £15 per person

There are no more scheduled boccia courses after this course, so if you are interested in attending please contact Nicola Cartwright on 07725149550 or email: cartwright172@btinternet.com. There is a maximum of 24 delegate places available and applications will be based on a first come first serves basis.

Do You Offer Funding Advice to Sports Clubs?

Cumbria CVS are currently developing an online course that will be available in the next few weeks on funding advice. It is accredited through the Open College Network at Level 3 and provided by Fit4Funding. Many of the Development Officers at Cumbria CVS will be enrolling on to the course. Costs are to be confirmed, but will be around £200.

For more information contact Mark Payne, Training Coordinator at Cumbria CVS on 01900 819191 or visit www.cumbrialearninglinks.org.uk.